Overheard: The I Come Running Edition

The girls are outside and I'm in the dining room setting the table.

Chaya: Don't tell Ima...

Shira: What?

Chaya: Don't tell Ima.

Overheard: The Star Wars Edition

We've recently finished the original Star Wars trilogy. Naturally, the movies have now filled the girls' vernacular. 

While playing Uno, Chaya was a bit upset that Batya was winning.

Shira to Batya: Let the wookiee win.
Chaya: aaaaaaaaa!

About Darth Vader while watching the opening of Return of the Jedi.

Chaya: Doesn't he miss his son?

Upon seeing the ewoks for the first time.

Batya: LOOK! It has a shofar!
Shira: tootootootootoo
Batya: Its a giant hamster with a shofar!

About Princess Leia's Hoth hairdo.

Shira: Can you do my hair like that? Then I can be a real princess.

Watching Jabba the Hutt eat.

Chaya: Ewww! That is so disgusting! That is just so disgustong! Isn't that disgusting?

Anytime Han and Leia kissed.

All three together: Ewwww! And then they looked away.

Overheard: The First Day of School Edition

Afterward visiting The Huntington we stopped for lunch to celebrate the first day of school and Chaya exclaimed, "But we didn't learn anything!" Gee, thanks.

Me: Who's George Washington?

Chaya and Shira: The first president!

Me: How many pieces of marble do you use to make a sculpture?

Shira: One!

Me: Do you mix colors before painting an impressionistic painting?

Batya: No.

Shira: You dab it together on the paper.

Chaya: Its dots.

Overheard

Batya: Today is the second day of the nine days.

Shira: That's right! Chaya, did you hear that? We get to have cheese pasta for dinner tomorrow night because we can't eat meat!

Chaya: Woo hoo!

Overheard

Chaya: I can't wait to be an adult. I'm going to be one before my sisters.

Batya: No. When you are a triplet you are the same as...the...uh...same as...the...the others. When you are born, the others are born. When you turn one, the others turn one. When you turn two, the others turn two. When you turn three, the others turn three. When you turn four, the others turn four. When you turn five, the others turn five. When you are an adult, the others are an adult.